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2 Corinthians 1
Verse 1. Timotheus our brother - St. Paul writing to Timotheus styled
him his son; writing of him, his brother.
Verse
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ - A
solemn and beautiful introduction, highly suitable to the
apostolical spirit. The Father of mercies, and God of all comfort -
Mercies are the fountain of comfort; comfort is the outward
expression of mercy. God shows mercy in the affliction itself. He
gives comfort both in and after the affliction. Therefore is he
termed, the God of all comfort. Blessed be this God!
Verse
4. Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to
comfort them who are in any affliction - He that has experienced
one kind of affliction is able to comfort others in that affliction.
He that has experienced all kinds of affliction is able to comfort
them in all.
Verse
5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us - The sufferings
endured on his account. So our comfort also aboundeth through
Christ - The sufferings were many, the comfort one; and yet not
only equal to, but overbalancing, them all.
Verse
6. And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and
salvation - For your present comfort, your present and future
salvation. Or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort -
That we may be the better able to comfort you. Which is effectual
in the patient enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer -
Through the efficacy of which you patiently endure the same kind
of sufferings with us.
Verse
7. And our hope concerning you - Grounded on your patience in
suffering for Christ's sake, is steadfast.
Verse
8. We would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the trouble which
befell us in Asia - Probably the same which is described in the
nineteenth chapter of the Acts. The Corinthians knew before that
he had been in trouble: he now declares the greatness and the fruit
of it. We were exceedingly pressed, above our strength - Above
the ordinary strength even of an apostle.
Verse
9. Yea, we had the sentence of death in ourselves - We ourselves
expected nothing but death.
Verse
10. We trust that he will still deliver - That we may at length be
able to come to you.
Verse
11. You likewise - As well as other churches. Helping with us by
prayer, that for the gift - Namely, my deliverance. Bestowed upon
us by means of many persons - Praying for it, thanks may be
given by many.
Verse
12. For I am the more emboldened to look for this, because I am
conscious of my integrity; seeing this is our rejoicing - Even in
the deepest adversity. The testimony of our conscience -
Whatever others think of us. That in simplicity - Having one end
in view, aiming singly at the glory of God. And godly sincerity -
Without any tincture of guile, dissimulation, or disguise. Not with
carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God - Not by natural, but
divine, wisdom. We have had our conversation in the world - In
the whole world; in every circumstance.
Verse
14. Ye have acknowledged us in part - Though not so fully as ye
will do. That we are you rejoicing - That ye rejoice in having
known us. As ye also are ours - As we also rejoice in the success
of our labours among you; and we trust shall rejoice therein in the
day of the Lord Jesus.
Verse
15. In this confidence - That is, being confident of this.
Verse
17. Did I use levity - Did I lightly change my purpose? Do I
purpose according to the flesh - Are my purposes grounded on
carnal or worldly considerations? So that there should be with me
yea and nay - Sometimes one, sometimes the other; that is,
variableness and inconstancy.
Verse
18. Our word to you - The whole tenor of our doctrine. Hath not
been yea and nay - Wavering and uncertain.
Verse
19. For Jesus Christ, who was preached by us - That is, our
preaching concerning him. Was not yea and nay - Was not
variable and inconsistent with itself. But was yea in him - Always
one and the same, centering in him.
Verse
20. For all the promises of God are yea and amen in him - Are
surely established in and through him. They are yea with respect
to God promising; amen, with respect to men believing; yea, with
respect to the apostles; amen, with respect to their hearers.
Verse
21. I say, to the glory of God - For it is God alone that is able to
fulfil these promises. That establisheth us - Apostles and teachers.
With you - All true believers. In the faith of Christ; and hath
anointed us - With the oil of gladness, with joy in the Holy Ghost,
thereby giving us strength both to do and suffer his will.
Verse
22. Who also hath sealed us - Stamping his image on our hearts,
thus marking and sealing us as his own property. And given us the
earnest of his Spirit - There is a difference between an earnest and
a pledge. A pledge is to be restored when the debt is paid; but an
earnest is not taken away, but completed. Such an earnest is the
Spirit. The first fruits of it we have Rom. viii, 23; and we wait for
all the fulness.
Verse
23. I call God for a record upon my soul - Was not St. Paul now
speaking by the Spirit? And can a more solemn oath be
conceived? Who then can imagine that Christ ever designed to
forbid all swearing? That to spare you I came not yet to Corinth -
Lest I should be obliged to use severity. He says elegantly to
Corinth, not to you, when be is intimating his power to punish.
Verse
24. Not that we have dominion over your faith - This is the
prerogative of God alone. But are helpers of your joy - And faith
from which it springs. For by faith ye have stood - To this day.
We see the light in which ministers should always consider
themselves, and in which they are to be considered by others. Not
as having dominion over the faith of their people, and having a
right to dictate by their own authority what they shall believe, or
what they shall do; but as helpers of their joy, by helping them
forward in faith and holiness. In this view, how amiable does their
office appear! and how friendly to the happiness of mankind!
How far, then, are they from true benevolence, who would expose
it to ridicule and contempt!
Chapter 1:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 Corinthians Galatians
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